The Morality Of Euthanasia

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             is the same with moral rules. Without understanding the rules, we may .
             come to think of it as a mark of virtue that we will not consider .
             making exceptions to. We need a way of understanding the morality .
             against killing. The point is not to preserve every living thing .
             possible, but to protect the interests of individuals to have the .
             right of choice to die.
             People who oppose euthanasia have argued constantly doctors .
             have often been known to miscalculate or to make mistakes. Death is .
             final and irreversible; in some cases doctors have wrongly made .
             diagnostic errors during a check-up. Patients being told they have .
             cancer or AIDS, by their doctors' mistake, have killed themselves to .
             avoid the pain. Gay-Williams, The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia, stated:.
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             "Contemporary medicine has high standards of excellence and a proven .
             record of accomplishment, but it does not possess perfect and .
             complete knowledge. A mistaken diagnosis is possible. We may believe .
             that we are dying of a disease when, as a matter of fact, we may not .
             be. . . ." (454) .
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             Williams explains that patients who have been told by their doctors .
             they have cancer never actually had it. But there have been so few .
             cases reported that these remarks are often considered to be .
             speculations. The individual should have been able to continue living .
             until he felt the need to be confined to a bed. I cannot disagree .
             with the fact that doctors do make mistakes, but they are more correct .
             than they are wrong. Let's say that the patient chooses not to die .
             but instead takes the medicines his doctor has prescribed for him. In .
             doing so the patient is choosing for himself. He's making his own .
             decisions; he could see other doctors to see if his illness had not .
             been mistakenly presented. Is it not for the individual to decide .
             whether she or he wants to live or die? .
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             Those opposing euthanasia have also argued that practicing euthanasia .